adv. and a. Also 8 Sc. sinwart. [f. SUN sb. + -WARD.] A. adv. orig. † to the sun-ward (in quot. 1611 = on the sunny side): Toward the sun; in the direction of the sun.
1611. Cotgr., Avant-pesche, th’ Auant-peach,… russet on one side, and red to the Sunne-ward.
a. 1711. Ken, Psyche, Poet. Wks. 1721, IV. 252. The Saint, embarking on the Cloud, it rose … Then faster than it rose, it sunward dropp’d.
1786. Burns, To Mountain Daisy, v. Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread.
1788. Picken, Poems, 125. A skepp o’ Bees,… Wadg’t in atween twa willow trees, An’ airtan to the sinwart.
1847. Longf., By Fireside, Tegnér’s Drapa, i. The mournful cry Of sunward sailing cranes.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. xi. 82. Clouds … with their faces turned sunward, shone [etc.].
B. adj. Directed toward the sun; moving or facing in the direction of the sun.
1769. Falconer, Shipwr., III. 22. As they view His sunward flight.
1795. Campbell, Caroline, II. vi. Shine on her chosen green resort Whose trees the sunward summit crown.
1853. G. Johnston, Nat. Hist. E. Bord., I. 74. On sunward banks.
1887. Swinburne, Locrine, IV. ii. 263. Mightier than the sunward eagle’s wing.
1892. Black, Wolfenberg, I. vii. 165. Pomegranates … taking a tinge of crimson on their sunward side.
